NPR News: 09-26-2025 6PM EDT
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What recent actions has President Trump taken regarding his political enemies?
President Trump says he hopes more of his political enemies will be indicted. This comes after Trump handpicked a new federal prosecutor in Virginia, who then returned an indictment against one of Trump's more outspoken critics, former FBI Director James Comey. NPR's Tamara Keith reports.
Comey was indicted on two counts related to allegedly lying to Congress in testimony five years ago, after Trump demanded that the Justice Department prosecute him. Trump says he expects more of the people who made his life miserable over the last eight years to be prosecuted.
It's about justice, really. It's not revenge. It's about justice. It's also about the fact that you can't let this go on. They are sick, radical left people, and they can't get away with it. And Comey was one of the people. He wasn't the biggest. But he's a dirty cop.
Comey says he is innocent and he looks forward to proving it at trial. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.
A surge of 13 federal agencies will join Memphis police to help fight crime in the city starting Monday. Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Lee says the influx will include the FBI, U.S. Marshals and National Guard troops. Christopher Blank reports from member station WKNO.
Since President Donald Trump approved the Memphis Safe Task Force last Friday, wary community leaders have debated enhanced public safety versus the optics of a military presence. Governor Lee stressed a cautious approach.
The operation itself will develop as the need is understood on the ground.
Though the city's crime rate hit a 25-year low in the past eight months, officials are aiming for permanent reductions.
We don't know how long it will take for that to work, but however long it takes.
To start, the governor pledged more than 300 state troopers and $100 million toward crime-fighting technology. Troops, he says, will be unarmed unless local law enforcement requests otherwise and will have no power to make arrests. For NPR News, I'm Christopher Blank in Memphis.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is tightening the requirements for non-citizens to get commercial driver's licenses. NPR's Joel Rose reports the department says all states must comply with the new rules.
The Transportation Department is announcing the new rules after fatal crashes this year in Florida, Texas, and Alabama. Officials say all three were caused by non-citizen truck drivers who should not have received commercial driver's licenses. The rules will make it impossible for many immigrants to get those licenses because only three specific classes of visa holders are eligible. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also threatened to revoke $160 million in federal funding from California unless it complies. A spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom defended the state's safety record, saying commercial driver's license holders from California have a fatal crash rate almost 40 percent below the national average.
Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
This is NPR News from Washington. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands to boost funding for health care, calling them unserious. But he says a government shutdown is still avoidable. Thune says Democrats need to scale back demands to reverse cuts to Medicaid. An autopsy has detected that the man accused of killing four people last month in a building that included National Football League headquarters was suffering from a brain disorder, CTE. Steve Futterman reports.
27-year-old Shane Tamura targeted the NFL offices. He accused the league of concealing the potential dangers of football. After the shootings, Tamura killed himself. In a note, he said, study my brain, please. The medical examiner found he was suffering a low stage level of the degenerative brain disorder, CTE. Tamura played youth football here in the LA area and continued through high school. Chris Nowinski is co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
If you start at six and you play through high school, no researcher who's paying attention to this is now surprised to find somebody who played that long having CTE.
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